Great Expectation episode 2

With an overly sombre debut, I look at the second episode with some trepidation. 

But with an opening salvo where transactions and retractions are particularly grim.

Pip is subjected to power plays, and the power play of the pumblecock and pips family, replete with sado masochism motifs, is somewhat unsettling, more so as we watch the blind man’s bluff that pip is subjected to.

But as a shine in all this is Pip’s desire to become a gentleman,n one he is attempting to grasp while maintaining his agency. It’s rIt’snant and always has been, moving more to the feelings of jude the obscure than the Potterverse of the previous episode. Estrella immediately shows her limitations within the home and her resentment of them.

The dialogue is harsh, fast and, at times, fashionable. But never in question.

The show’s momentum after this is much broader and more intricate. And Pip’s keenness to become a gentleman is, frankly, the way that is placed now…not much different from my own in writing these reviews.

And totally in the openness to receive that guidance from the art and the culture and etiquette

Albeit my lack of interest in Elephants.

But there is more warmth and heart within the first half hour than the entirety of its first as pip is not just being groomed but welcoming the opportunity as HIS opportunity.

AND THEN HIS 18TH BIRTHDAY PRESENT. WHAT! NO SERIOUSLY! WHAT! Culty groom nonsense this is.

The role and images of chains thought it all is a bit heavy-handed as we see chains for people and manacles of society as much as the blacksmith’s work. 

Meanwhile, the move into learning french, his keenness and desire to gain approval rather than the enrichment it could bring, shows the shades of his downfall. I moved to Paris without french. Yes, I learnt french. But frankly,y it was to eat, pay bills and ensure I had clean clothes. Nto the encouragement of dilletantes. But it plays comically and with a great deal of warm pace sorely needed after the 18th birthday present. SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT

It becomes increasingly apparent that his education comes from home. It’s only the qualification that this haversham all of the horrors could denote. Biddy does more to elevate his awareness, and it’s increasingly apparent he is a shell as much as the suit he is told he needs.

Haversham is inconsistent and erratic, but Olivia is as charismatic as she is. She fulfils the cliche that all evil dickens characters can jsut be called—the lady evil of evil ville.

As the show ends on another cliffhanger,r I wonder what the city life of pip will convey if this rural life is so grotesque.